Sen was looking at her mom sleep. She didn't understand a lot around her, but she understood that she was sick, and that her sickness was hurting her mommah. Sen sighed and tried to get comfy, her body hurt and the needle in her arm made it hard to turn on her sides. She groaned and pushed the button that the nurses showed her to push. The nurse's voice came on the speaker asking her what was wrong.

"I hurt" Sen whispered into the speaker. "I want to turn around."

"I'll be on my way."

The nurse entered her room and had a soft cloth and a bunch of pillows. She placed the cloth under Sen's hip bone and the put a tiny pillow under that, those were to help keep her bone from bruising her. Then she helped Sen turn onto her side and placed the pillows behind her to help her. The nurse then took out a syringe and put the medicine in the I.V. Sen felt like she was floating when the nurse was done. She smiled as sleep took over her small body.

About an hour later, Sen felt movement in the room. Opening her groggy eyes she saw someone standing at the foot of her bed. She stretched her arm out. When the figure didn't move she frowned.

"Please do the squeezing thing on my arm, I want to go to sleep." she said in a tired voice.

"Uh, I'm not a doctor." said the person.

Sen frowned and saw Chihiro move, as if she had a reaction to the voice. "Haku..." whispered Chihiro.

The man standing at the foot of her bed looked over at Chihiro. Sen didn't like that, "Hey! Are you lost mister?" she said loudly.

Chihiro woke up and looked at the person.

Oh no! She groaned and hid her face. Too far, too far! I let it go too far! Now I'm not just dreaming about him and hearing him, I'm seeing him too.

Sen frowned more, "Mommah is this man lost?"

She can see him too...maybe I'm dreaming.

"Can I help you?" Chihiro asked the man.

"Uh...can we talk outside."

His voice! His voice his wonderful voice! I am dreaming! She stood up and followed him out to the hallway. Once out there he seemed hesitant.

"Chihiro." he whispered.

That did it, she was sure it was him. She threw herself in his arms and snuggled up against him, taking in everything about him. She kept touching his face, his arms, his chest, just to be sure that it was him. She was crying and clinging to him. He leaned in to kiss her but she pushed back.

"Chihiro?" his eyes looked hurt.

He knew this would happen. She moved on, she didn't love him anymore.

Chihiro shook her head, "When I wake up, this will hurt a lot more."

"You aren't dreaming." he told her with a laugh.

"Then how are you here Haku?" she said in an impatient voice.

"Shinigami and the Twins granted me entry to the Human World so I could see you again." he told her.

"So you're going to leave again?" she looked down sadly.

"I have a choice to make, same as you. They told me that circumstances arose here in your life, these circumstances were what kept you away. What happened Chihiro?"

He asked the question, but he feared the answer. Would she tell him to leave?

"I got married and had a daughter. My husband went to Africa before she was born, when he came back, he brought back an incurable disease, a life sentence. He refused to get treatment for it until it was too late, so he died. Now she has a different disease. She needs a transplant or she's going to die."

The words made it final. She knew it had come to this. Either Sen got the transplant, or she would die. Chihiro started crying again. Haku put his arms around her and held her as she cried. He could see now that she couldn't return to the Spirit World. Sighing he released her. Chihiro looked up at him with watery eyes and Haku was once again struck how beautiful she looked, even after she was crying. He was also shocked that six years of being apart did nothing to his attraction to her. He leaned towards her and Chihiro leaned towards him. A voice over the intercom caused them to spring apart. They forgot that they were in the hospital and Sen's was only in the other room.

"I should get back in there." Chihiro whispered.

"Yes, you should." Haku whispered.

"You'll stay here?"

"Yes."

"How long?"

"As long as you need me."

With that, they returned to the room and Chihiro introduced Sen to her old friend.